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100 1 $aKūnī, Ibrāhīm,$eauthor.
240 10 $aWaw al-Sughra$lEnglish
245 10 $aNew waw :$bSaharan oasis /$cIbrahim Al-Koni ; translated and introduced by William M. Hutchins.
264 1 $aAustin, TX :$bCenter for Middle Eastern Studies/University of Texas at Austin,$c[2014]
300 $axi, 150 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aModern Middle East literatures in translation series
500 $aTranslated from the Arabic.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aUpon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berber community whose traditional homeland is the Sahara Desert, turns to the heir dictated by tribal custom; however, he is a poet reluctant to don the mantle of leadership. Forced by tribal elders to abandon not only his poetry but his love, who is also a poet, he reluctantly serves as leader. Whether by human design or the meddling of the Spirit World, his death inspires his tribe to settle down permanently, abandoning not only nomadism but also the inherited laws of the tribe. The community they found, New Waw, which they name for the mythical paradise of the Tuareg people, is also the setting of Ibrahim al-Koni's companion novel, The Puppet. For al-Koni, this Tuareg tale of the tension between nomadism and settled life represents a choice faced by people everywhere, in many walks of life, as a result of globalism. He sees an inevitable interface between myth and contemporary life.
650 0 $aTuaregs$vFiction.
700 1 $aHutchins, William M.,$etranslator.
710 2 $aUniversity of Texas at Austin.$bCenter for Middle Eastern Studies.